Objective The WATCH-OVER project aims to address the number of accidents involving road vulnerable users such as pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists. This topic falls within the more general road safety problem that has been dealt with in the EC White Paper on EU transport policy for 2010, stating the ambitious goal of reducing road deaths by 50% in the next 5 years.The project will carry out RandD activities with the scope to design and develop a cooperative system for the prevention of accidents involving vulnerable road users in urban and extra-urban areas. According in fact to IST strategic objective 2.4.12 To develop and demonstrate Co-operative systems for road transport that will make transport more efficient and effective, safer and more environmentally friendly, the system concept will be based on interaction between an in-vehicle module and users devices. It foresees the development of a cooperative system integrating low cost communication technologies, as an extension to autonomous sensor based systems, in combination, if feasible, with localization technologies, in order to increase the performances needed to cover the most critical situations.The main objectives of WATCH-OVER are:- to identify specific road scenarios;- to select and to adapt the most suitable communication and sensing technologies for them;- to integrate above technologies in the demonstrator;- to technically validate in terms of user acceptance the system on the test bed.Main innovation aspect will be represented by:- the selection, the HW/SW adaptation and the integration of short range communication and sensing technologies for the detection and positioning of vulnerable road user relatively to the vehicle;- the development of algorithms for the localization of the vulnerable road users module and for properly warning the driver about possible dangers;- the development of a low cost and high efficiency cooperative system. Fields of science social sciencessocial geographytransportsustainable transport Programme(s) FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006). Topic(s) IST-2004-2.4.12 - eSafety Co-operative Systems for Road Transport Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator CENTRO RICERCHE FIAT - SOCIETA' CONSORTILE PER AZIONI EU contribution No data Address Strada Torino 50 ORBASSANO (TO) Italy See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (12) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all AUSTRIAN RESEARCH CENTERS GMBH - ARC Austria EU contribution No data Address Donau-City-Strasse 1 WIEN See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY HELLAS Greece EU contribution No data Address 6th km Charilaou-Thermi Road THERMI-THESSALONIKI See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data DAIMLERCHRYSLER AG Germany EU contribution No data Address EPPLESTRASSE 225 70567 STUTTGART See on map Total cost No data FABER SOFTWARE SRL Italy EU contribution No data Address VIA AVOGADRO 19 10100 TORINO See on map Total cost No data LOGICACMG NEDERLAND B.V. Netherlands EU contribution No data Address PROF. W. H. KEESOMLAAN 14 1183DJ AMSTELVEEN See on map Total cost No data MIRA LIMITED United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address WATLING STREET CV10 0TU NUNEATON WARWICKSHIRE See on map Total cost No data PIAGGIO & C S.P.A. Italy EU contribution No data Address VIALE RINALDO PIAGGIO 25 56025 PONTEDERA See on map Total cost No data ROBERT BOSCH GMBH Germany EU contribution No data Address Robert-Bosch Platz 1 106050 GERLINGEN-SCHILLERHOEHE See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data STEINBEIS STIFTUNG FUR TECHNOLOGIE TRANSFER Germany EU contribution No data Address WILLI-BLEICHER-STRASSE 19 70174 STUTTGART See on map Total cost No data TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET CHEMNITZ Germany EU contribution No data Address STRASSE DER NATIONEN 62 CHEMNITZ See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MODENA E REGGIO EMILIA Italy EU contribution No data Address VIA UNIVERSITA 4 MODENA See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITAET STUTTGART EU contribution No data Address See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data